Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Hi there,

My name is Wayne Morrison and I've just joined your group. A recent 
S1000HD owner, I'm familiar with the AKAI sampler setup, being a long-time 
S900 owner. The SCSI aspect of the S1000, however, has me somewhat 
baffled. The internal drive seems to be inoperable - I keep getting a "Drive not 
ready" notice whenever I try to access it, even to format it. Whenever I try to 
access an external drive through the SCSI interface (I own a zip drive as well 
as an old syquest 44MB drive) the S1000 seems to only look for the internal 
drive, so I continually get the "drive not ready" notice. Any help or inight on 
how to solve this problem will be helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne

Wayne,

Thanks for the introduction. 

You know that you have to set the SCSI ID of your HD first?
Take a look in the manual (downloadable from this site) how to do it. 
If you have set the SCSI ID right and tested it, save the OS on a
floppy. This way your SCSI ID is always right when you boot up.

BTW: you do not have to format your drive. This is wrong indicated on
the menu. Format means low level format. You only need to 'arrange'
the HD.

If you still encounter SCSI problems, please read the SCSI faq first.
You will find it in the links section of this group.

Have fun with your sampler and send us a track if you made something
wonderful.

Rgds,

Frank



--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "purejoymusic"
<wmorrison@m...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> My name is Wayne Morrison and I've just joined your group. A recent 
> S1000HD owner, I'm familiar with the AKAI sampler setup, being a
long-time 
> S900 owner. The SCSI aspect of the S1000, however, has me somewhat 
> baffled. The internal drive seems to be inoperable - I keep getting
a "Drive not 
> ready" notice whenever I try to access it, even to format it.
Whenever I try to 
> access an external drive through the SCSI interface (I own a zip
drive as well 
> as an old syquest 44MB drive) the S1000 seems to only look for the
internal 
> drive, so I continually get the "drive not ready" notice. Any help
or inight on 

> how to solve this problem will be helpful.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Wayne